Labor welcomes the Morrison Government’s decision to heed our call to give more people living with Type 1 diabetes free access to the technology they need to improve their lives. We went to the 2016 election with an $80 million promise to expand subsidies for Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices so that pregnant women and high-risk

THE HON TANYA PLIBERSEK MP   DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING SHADOW MINISTER FOR WOMEN MEMBER FOR SYDNEY THE HON CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT HEALTHY HAROLD GETS A LIFELINE FROM LABOR A Shorten Labor Government will reverse Morrison Government cuts to Healthy

Private health insurers are raking in the profits even as more Australians are being forced to abandon their coverage because of ever-increasing costs. The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority figures show the insurers took in more than $24 billion in revenue from premiums in the year to September 2018 but paid out only $20.4 billion

The Morrison Government has been dragged kicking and screaming into accepting an extension to the My Health Record opt-out period. For months, Labor has been calling for an extension in order to get this important reform right. For months, the Liberals have been insisting there was no need for an extension. But in the Senate

Labor will move in the Senate to delay the opt-out deadline for the My Health Record because the Morrison Government refuses to do so. We will seek crossbench support to amend the Government’s legislation to extend the opt-out period for a further 12 months – in line with a key recommendation of the recent Senate

The Senate has today called on the Morrison Government to extend or suspend the opt-out period of the My Health Record. A motion co-sponsored by Labor Senator Murray Watt passed the Senate on Monday with strong support from the crossbench. The motion calls on the government to “extend or suspend the opt-out period until the

The Liberals are finally moving to clean up their My Health Record mess – by adopting Labor’s proposed changes – but they still need to act and extend the opt-out period. This has been an absolute debacle and Australians need more time to understand the changes. These changes have been made with only days left

First the Liberals botched the My Health Record rollout – and now they’ve botched their own clean up job. Nearly four months after public controversy first erupted – and with less than 10 days to go until the opt-out period ends – we still don’t know what the Government is planning to do to fix

Management consultants are making millions off Scott Morrison’s Medicare review – but the benefits to ordinary Australians struggling with out-of-control health care costs are yet to materialise. Mr Morrison must explain why he thinks showering McKinsey with $20 million to help him find new Medicare savings is a good use of taxpayers’ money. He must

Australia’s thalidomide survivors will share their stories of pain and struggle during the first hearing of a Labor-initiated Senate inquiry on Friday. Labor asked the Senate to establish the inquiry to examine what support has been given to thalidomide survivors to date – and what more we could potentially do. Thalidomide was a drug used